42.1 Charging - A minor or major penalty shall be imposed on a player who skates or jumps into, or charges an opponent in any manner.

Charging shall mean the actions of a player who, as a result of distance traveled, shall violently check an opponent in any manner. A “charge” may be the result of a check into the boards, into the goal frame or in open ice.

Ovechkin and the entire Capitals organization needs to brush up on the rule book.

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so i was thinking...this is the official end of ovechkin being a face of the NHL, right? i agree with puck daddy's assertion that the league isn't even interested in him showing up to the ASG. he's a pouty little baby who isn't even an elite player. he has almost no value to the NHL in North American marketing anymore

shmenguin wrote:so i was thinking...this is the official end of ovechkin being a face of the NHL, right? i agree with puck daddy's assertion that the league isn't even interested in him showing up to the ASG. he's a pouty little baby who isn't even an elite player. he has almost no value to the NHL in North American marketing anymore

His rockstar do anything I want/can attitude is growing sour, that much is apparent.

Henry Hank wrote:The Caps problems start at the top. From fat Ted to McPhee down to Ovechkin it's an organization of no accountability. Everything is always some kind of injustice against them, they're owed things, things are just supposed to happen for them. That's why getting rid of Boudreau doesn't really solve anything. He was just one link in a chain of losers.

Contrast that to the Pens. When Cooke got his suspension, the ownership and management accepted it and acknowledged the problem. They put the onus on Cooke to change and he too acknowledged that he had to do things differently, and he has. And the Pens had plenty of reason to be upset with it because it truly was an unfair suspension, at least compared to the league standard, and it very well may have been a large factor in them losing a close seven game series last spring. Ovechkin launches himself off the ice into the head of an opponent and gets a relative slap on the wrist suspension considering his suspension history and the fact that he's been getting away with hits like that his whole career, and they whine about it, while he takes his ball and goes home to sulk instead of playing in an AS game that he was fortunate to even be selected for given the season he's having.

You are dead-on.

This is why the Caps will never hoist the cup. They keep failing the gut-check.

And I can't believe the Ducks organization canned Carlyle (a cup-winning coach) for Boudreau (a Grade-A ***hole). What a bunch of losers!

LOL McPhee still complaining about the Campbell suspension. That seemed pretty clear-cut to me that it was a reckless play and for the *GM* to still have any kind of ax to grind about it after a year speaks volumes about his emotional intelligence and how far up the entitled "waaahhh, everyone is against us" mentality pervades the Capitals organization.

Henry Hank wrote:The Caps problems start at the top. From fat Ted to McPhee down to Ovechkin it's an organization of no accountability. Everything is always some kind of injustice against them, they're owed things, things are just supposed to happen for them. That's why getting rid of Boudreau doesn't really solve anything. He was just one link in a chain of losers.

Contrast that to the Pens. When Cooke got his suspension, the ownership and management accepted it and acknowledged the problem. They put the onus on Cooke to change and he too acknowledged that he had to do things differently, and he has. And the Pens had plenty of reason to be upset with it because it truly was an unfair suspension, at least compared to the league standard, and it very well may have been a large factor in them losing a close seven game series last spring. Ovechkin launches himself off the ice into the head of an opponent and gets a relative slap on the wrist suspension considering his suspension history and the fact that he's been getting away with hits like that his whole career, and they whine about it, while he takes his ball and goes home to sulk instead of playing in an AS game that he was fortunate to even be selected for given the season he's having.

shmenguin wrote:so i was thinking...this is the official end of ovechkin being a face of the NHL, right? i agree with puck daddy's assertion that the league isn't even interested in him showing up to the ASG. he's a pouty little baby who isn't even an elite player. he has almost no value to the NHL in North American marketing anymore

His rockstar do anything I want/can attitude is growing sour, that much is apparent.

Reading his comments on the suspension it seems pretty clear that he hasn't learned anything and is completely unrepentant. He said Z ducked, he said Z didn't get hurt, and said it was a clean hit. This isn't his last rodeo and I hope he gets more than 3 the next time.

Henry Hank wrote:The Caps problems start at the top. From fat Ted to McPhee down to Ovechkin it's an organization of no accountability. Everything is always some kind of injustice against them, they're owed things, things are just supposed to happen for them. That's why getting rid of Boudreau doesn't really solve anything. He was just one link in a chain of losers.

Contrast that to the Pens. When Cooke got his suspension, the ownership and management accepted it and acknowledged the problem. They put the onus on Cooke to change and he too acknowledged that he had to do things differently, and he has. And the Pens had plenty of reason to be upset with it because it truly was an unfair suspension, at least compared to the league standard, and it very well may have been a large factor in them losing a close seven game series last spring. Ovechkin launches himself off the ice into the head of an opponent and gets a relative slap on the wrist suspension considering his suspension history and the fact that he's been getting away with hits like that his whole career, and they whine about it, while he takes his ball and goes home to sulk instead of playing in an AS game that he was fortunate to even be selected for given the season he's having.

one of the best i've read. i'm so sick of ovechkin and the capitals. for a team that has done jack during his time in the league, and given their mediocre play this year, just go away please.

I just read the lyrics he raps in the music video. First of all, I don't think he's a champion unless he wins the Cup. Second, all attention on him? Screw you, Ovie.

He's not even going to the all-star game this year. He has an over-inflated ego and it's affecting his gameplay, as well as, his behavior... like the crying and failing to take responsibility for his actions.